Event 2 of the Borgata Fall Poker Open was the $350+$50+$100 Black Chip Bounty NLH event. There were a total of 381 entries creating a prize pool of more than $129,000.

When the dust settled it was Borgata regular John Yanni in the winners circle holding the trophy. Yanni started to heat up just before the final table eliminating one of his closest friends Sean Barringer in 13th.

Yanni kept his momentum until just three players remained and he was holding more than a 2 to 1 chip lead on the closest stack John Marvinny. The final three then counted the stacks down and quickly came to an agreement in which Yanni takes him his first Borgata Fall Poker Open title along with $27,194.

Yanni gets his series off to a great start and we will surely be seeing plenty more him in the upcoming week.

With the elimination of Spyros Malakotsis in 4th place the final three agreed to stop the clock and discuss a deal. The stacks were counted and they quickly came to an ICM agreement.

John Yanni who held more than a 2 to 1 chip lead at the time of the time will take home his first Borgata Poker Open title and $27,194. John Marvinny will take second and $20,761 and Dennis Lisovskiy will take home $18,441 for his third place finish.

Spryros Malakotsis and John Yanni go heads up to the flop. Malakotsis moves all in for 1,100,000 and Yanni makes the call.

Malakotsis:
Yanni:

Yanni is holding a monster draw with straight and flush draws along with two over cards but will still need to improve. The turn is the and the hits the river double pairing the board to counterfeit Malakotsis who is eliminated in 4th earning $9,701.

It folds around to Venkat Kumar Nagaraja on the button and he tosses in his black $100 chip to signify an all in. Spyros Malakotsis calls from the big blind for 665,000 and they turn over the hands.

Nagaraja:
Malakotsis:

They see a flop of pairing Malakotsis and giving Nagaraja a gutshot straight draw. The dealer burns and turns the and Nagaraja turns his straight leaving Malakotsis drawing dead. The meaningless completes the board and Nagaraja doubles up.

Pot of the tournament so far. Venkat studies the situation while Dennis covers his throat.

Right under the noses of John Marvinny and Spyros Malakotsis, engaged in agreement banter, a huge pot developed.

With a pot sized bet left on the river, the aggressive Dennis Lisovskiy pushed in his stack, a life or death moment of 1,100,000 to win 1,000,000 into the only player who could bust him – chip leader Venkat.

The board was . Back door clubs had missed, and only the unlikely forms of straights existed.

A tough, truly polarized spot.

A long time passed, and finally the table realized what was happening. Venkat, so even-keeled and hard to read, finally seemed to break composure. He knew this call would put him in a dominating position.

He dropped the chips in.

Immediately Dennis leapt up and shook his fist. He knew he was good, and sat down to flip over , a big two pair at this stage and an even bigger pot.

Stephen Song was able to get his last 20+ big blinds in with , only to find himself coolered, blind versus blind, against big stack Dennis Lsovskiy who found .

A bad match up, and Song could not find any magic in the runout. He takes 11th one hand later to bubble the final table for $1,682.

Dennis decimates another opponent. That’s the majority of Song’s stack being counted down for him – 2 blinds for Stephen remain.

Once the ten players were situated, shortstacked Cerbone, who had performed a miracle getting this far after running into the bottom two pair of Dennis while holding TPTK many levels back, now was in a very favorable spot.

He held while his opponent Spyros Malkotsis showed up with a dominated for about ten blinds.

Nevertheless, a jack hit the flop. Cerbone’s rail cried for a – which would have delivered Matthew the nut straight – but all for naught.

He’s out in 10th for $1,682 as well. Spyros shoots up past a 1,000,000.